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Chapter 616: The Queen Rewards You

"I still have something to do, let's wait another day," the emperor glanced at Concubine Tian, ​​then turned to tell Lin to agree, "Lin promises you to teach her well. If you teach her well, I will reward you."

Concubine Tian took the emperor's arm and said coquettishly, "Your Majesty, Li Jieyu clearly knows how to sing Kun Opera, but she hides her refusal to teach me. The more this happens, the more I want her to teach me."

The emperor said softly, "I agree. Xu Fang, please arrange a sedan to pick up Li Jieyu. Tell Li Jieyu that if she teaches Concubine Tian Kun opera, I will also reward her."

Then he looked at Concubine Tian, ​​"Since Li Jieyu is here to teach, you must study hard. If you don't learn well, I will punish you. In addition, I have already punished Li Jieyu, so you cannot humiliate her again."

Concubine Tian covered her chest and stuck out her tongue slyly, "Your Majesty, don't scare me. I must study hard."

Study hard. You don’t need to learn to sing.

It's just that she wanted to give Li Jieyu a lesson. Who asked her to come to her door today, deliberately gave her eye drops, and cleaned her up? Lin promised.

If Li Jieyu really dares to teach her Kun Opera, she can pretend to practice hard every day, and then she will become a blockbuster and astound the emperor.

If she dares not to come, then it will be confirmed that she has disobeyed the imperial edict and disrespected the concubines in high positions, and is guilty of the following.

Since the emperor issued the decree, Xu Fang was sent to pick it up.

When Li Jieyu received the imperial edict to revoke her title, she was so shocked that her jaw dropped.

Now, she was even forced to "teach Concubine Tian to sing Kunqu opera". It was a double blow, and it hit the ground.

Li Jieyu said angrily, "You're such a good Concubine Tian. I've recorded this account. Qiuxiang, follow me to the Qinzheng Hall."

But Xu Fang stopped him with his body.

If she goes to the left, Xu will go to the left; if she goes to the right, Xu will go to the right.

Li Jieyu said anxiously, "Eunuch Xu, what are you doing? Get out of my way!"

Xu Fang said with a smile on his face, "I can't go to the Qinzheng Hall. Your Majesty Tian is still waiting for you to teach me Kunqu opera."

Li Jieyu's eyes were red and she pushed Xu Fang, "Get out of the way! I have to go to see the Emperor and state the truth to the Emperor."

Xu Fang still blocked the way with a smile, hiding the needle in the cotton, "Why are you bothering me? This slave is passing on the imperial edict. You better not offend the emperor."

"Is the Emperor really so cruel to that Concubine Tian?" Li Jieyu murmured in despair.

She is younger than her cousin, but Concubine Tian is younger than her and has a richer family background than her.

Xu Fang bowed and advised earnestly, "Empress, please calm down. Who is Imperial Concubine Tian? She is the legitimate daughter of the Duke Protector's Palace. When she sleeps with her in the future, she must be at least one of the four concubines and become a queen. It's possible. Just accept it and admit it."

Li Jieyu rolled her eyes, "Get out of here!"

Xu Fang continued to advise, "Your Majesty, please don't be impulsive. The Emperor loves Concubine Tian so much. If you confront Concubine Tian directly, I'm afraid I won't forgive you for talking too much. Your Majesty is the cousin of Concubine Tian. All you have to do is go and beg Concubine Tian to speak kindly to you in front of the Emperor." Isn’t it easy to say a lot of things?”

Li Jieyu's face became increasingly ugly. He became very angry when he heard about it, let alone begged for mercy. Next life!
But she suddenly changed her mind, changed her attitude, and winked at Qiuxiang, the little palace maid beside her, "Thank you so much, Eunuch Xu, for enlightening me just now. Qiuxiang, the weather is so hot, please give Eunuch Xu some money for tea."

Then he said lazily, "I just have a headache, drowsiness, and a sore throat. Could you please Eunuch Xu and Concubine Tian to report back."

Seeing that the provocation worked, Xu Fang secretly raised the corner of his mouth.

"Your Majesty, this is really embarrassing for me. I'm going to send someone to ask you to be the Imperial Physician."

"Then I'll help you, Eunuch Xu. Fulu, please greet Eunuch Xu. Don't neglect me."

After Li Jieyu said that, she turned around and returned to the dormitory.

Although she was arrogant and domineering, her parents had reminded her before entering the palace that she should not offend anyone in the palace who was in front of the emperor. Therefore, although she was furious, she restrained herself from getting angry at Xu Fang.

When she returned to the palace, she was so angry that she smashed a set of tea cups on the table, still not relieved.

Half an hour later, Li Jieyu's personal maid rushed over in a panic and reported to Xu Fang that their master had a headache and fever and was sick, and needed to be informed by an imperial physician immediately.

It happened that the imperial doctor who was concubine Xuan also rushed to Chengfu Palace. After all, Li Jieyu was indeed ill.

In addition to the heat, I suffered from wind and cold, and I was very worried and anxious, so I immediately prescribed some medicine. The imperial doctors thoughtfully comforted Li Jieyu that her illness was just a minor one and would get better in three to five days.

Li Jieyu looked at the imperial doctor longingly, wishing she could make the condition more serious, prescribe more medicine for a few days, and stay in bed for a few more days, so that she could lie down until the condition of the concubine improved and she could take charge of the overall situation.

Since Li Jieyu was really ill, the teaching of singing was abandoned, and Xu Fang went back to restore the emperor's life.

Hearing that Li Jieyu suddenly fell ill, Li Beichen chuckled. It is not difficult to guess that the person who developed a fever so quickly was most likely due to taking a cold or even ice bath. He is really capable of being cruel to himself.

Concubine Tian was lying in the pavilion, lazily eating watermelon, the air-conditioning floating around her made her feel unhappy.

Hearing that Li Jieyu had injured herself a thousand times, she laughed so hard.

"She can survive past the first grade of junior high school, and she can survive past the fifteenth grade. It's really hilarious."

She just used Li Jieyu as a raft to let everyone know that she was not so easy to fool and bully.

He turned around and asked Chun Liu, the maid brought from home, "Has Lin promised to go back?" Chun Liu said cautiously, "He has gone back."

"Have all the lunch dishes been given to her? If she agrees, she may have never eaten these delicious foods."

Chun Liu: "Little Master Lin ate everything before leaving. He went to change clothes several times in the middle. I think he vomited several times."

Concubine Tian pouted and smiled coquettishly: "Alas. Sister Lin must have eaten so many delicacies for the first time. She may have eaten too much and got a stomachache. You didn't remind her."

"Chunliu, pack some exquisite snacks and bring some ice buckets to give to Sister Lin. By the way, bring some lemons to soak in water. I heard they are very soothing for the throat. They are a good tribute from the south."

Since the emperor and the concubine have arranged people around them, they can just play tricks.

Chunliu then led a little palace maid to Xining Palace, carrying a food box and a small ice bucket.

She purposely did not let anyone inform her. When she approached the west hall, she felt a wave of heat rushing towards her face. Walking further, I heard low cries mixed with indistinct voices that sounded like curses.

Chunliu pricked up his ears and listened carefully, and then he heard clearly that Lin Wenxing said in a hoarse voice, "She is deliberately hurting people. What does she think of me? Is she a prostitute in a brothel?"

The maid Lin promised was comforting her softly, asking her to talk less, drink more hot water, and take good care of her throat.

After the emperor left, Concubine Tian first forced Lin to agree to eat the leftovers they had eaten.

He also asked the chef from the small kitchen to introduce the name of each dish to her in detail, telling her how expensive the ingredients were and how rare it was to eat them. He asked her to cherish this opportunity and forced her to cook a table full of dishes. Eat it all and don’t waste it.

This caused her to repeatedly eat until she vomited, and then eat again after vomiting. As he vomited, his throat became more painful.

After Lin promised to finish the last plate of food, Concubine Tian began to ask her to sing Kunqu opera again. On the grounds that Lin promised to sing inappropriately, he repeatedly asked her to sing in a higher key or lower her voice, and to drink honey water with ice when she was thirsty. I sang back and forth like this for more than an hour.

My voice became hoarse, my voice was thick and heavy, and it hurt whenever I spoke.

The most speechless thing was that Concubine Tian herself took a glass of honey lemonade with ice and drank it slowly.

In this way, even if the emperor and the concubine knew what happened today, they would not be able to find any obvious mistakes.

Lin Yao promised to be finally released by Concubine Tian. He was so distraught that he almost couldn't stand still and couldn't help but burst into tears. She never thought that her willfulness last night would cause such torture.

Speaking a complete sentence is like a razor slicing your throat, it is very laborious. An amazing voice that was supposed to lead the singing at the Queen Mother's birthday was about to be ruined.

Lin promised to send a palace maid to ask Concubine He for help in hiring an imperial doctor. He did not dare to let the emperor know, let alone file a complaint.

She is not stupid, she has clearly seen the emperor's attitude, which is to support the Xie family. What does this mean to her? Lin Jieyu was deprived of her title. Concubine Tian's domineering behavior was all approved by the emperor. The emperor obviously had countless opportunities to speak for her, but he failed.

She does not have the family background of Concubine Tian, ​​nor the achievements of Concubine Jianing, nor the figure of Fang Changzai, nor the beauty of Fan Cairen, so why bother to embarrass herself and ask for divine mercy.

Just when she was in pain, Chunliu pushed the door open and entered.

Chunliu grew up with Tianbi, and she was immersed in Mrs. Xie's heroic style. Even though she was just a maid, she walked with a certain domineering air.

To others, he looks arrogant.

"Today, my hardworking young lady sang the Kunqu opera for half the afternoon. This is a reward from our mother-in-law. Why don't you express your gratitude?"

"Thank you for your grace."

Lin promised to hold back tears, bend his knees and salute, endure the severe pain in his throat, and accept the reward.

After Chunliu left the snacks and ice bucket, he glanced at Lin Yaoyong's master and servant contemptuously and left in a hurry.

Lin Yao's throat hurt so much that he couldn't breathe, his eyes were blurred with tears, and he was so angry that he threw out the rewarded box of heart. The lid of the snack box was knocked over and the snacks were scattered on the floor.

Chunliu suddenly returned with a hexagonal glass lamp, picked up the snacks on the ground, and screamed:
"Isn't it bad that Lin promised to look down on the reward given by the empress and dislike it? Why did he throw it all on the ground? The empress thought about the hard work of the young master and specially ordered the imperial chef to make this for the young master."

"No, no." Lin promised that he didn't expect the other party to turn back and quickly squatted down to pick up the snacks on the ground.

Chunliu picked up the cakes on the ground and handed them to Lin Yaosheng.

It seemed that he suddenly discovered that he had crushed a few cakes under his feet, and quickly backed away, "Oh. Master Lin, what should we do? I didn't see clearly just now, and accidentally crushed so many cakes. If the empress knew that it was wasted, she would definitely I will also punish my slaves.”

Upon seeing this, Lin's maid hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the trampled pastry and carefully put it into the pastry box.

Chunliu picked up the last piece of pastry that was badly damaged, blew it on it, and handed it to Lin Yaosheng.

"It's such a hot day, the snacks will spoil easily if they fall on the ground and get stained with dust. Why don't you eat them now, so as not to disappoint the queen's kindness."

Lin agreed to take it and hold it in the palm of his hand, wiped away his tears, and choked out, "Yeah, it's such a waste to drop it on the ground."

As he said this, he blew on the surface of the snack before stuffing it into his mouth.

"Little Master."

The palace maid who promised Lin shouted urgently, trying to snatch the rotten pastry from her master's hand, but she was tightly protected by her master's arms.

She didn't understand why a high-ranking empress like Concubine Tian would have to make such a small promise difficult.